Clinical lectures on the curability of attacks of tubercular peritonitis and acute phthisis (galloping consumption).

  • Anderson, McCall, 1836-1908.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Clinical lectures on the curability of attacks of tubercular peritonitis and acute phthisis (galloping consumption). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    continued. A SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY, Including the DISEASES OF PREGNANCY AND THE PUERPERAL STATE. By William Leishman, M.D., Regius Professor of Midwifery in the University oi Glasgow. In One Thick Volume Demy 8vo, nearly 90a pp., with 1S3 Wood Engravings. A new and cheaper Edition, enlarged and thoroughly Revised, price 2ls. British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review. We can strongly recommend the work as unquestionably the best modern book on midwifery in our language. Medical Press and Circular. We have no hesitation in saying that we commend this work to the student desirous of mastering the difficult subject of obstetrics, in preference to any other English work in existence. Lancet. We have little hesitation in saying that it is, in our judgment, the best English work on the subject. Medical Record. We should counsel the student by all means to procure Dr. Leishman's work. Medical Times and Gazette. ■' It stands alone in being the only volume that expresses the modern views upon this important branch of the profession. British Medical Journal. The work will unquestionably supply a want that has been long felt, coming from one who can speak with authority both as a teacher and practitioner. Obstetrical Journal of Great Britain and Ireland. This book is now, without doubt, the most complete system of British midwifery extant. Practitioner. In many respects, not only the best treatise on midwifery that we have seen, but one of the best treatises on any medical subject that has been published of late years. Key's American Journal of the Medical Sciences. This is a splendid contribution to medical science. Edinburgh Medical Journal. Dr. Leishman, as a mere writer of English, and as an obstetrical auihor too, at least takes place with the best systematic authors of the century. . . . . He has now produced two books which give him a leading place in British obstetric authorship. Glasgow Medical Journal. ** We know of no work on obstetrics by an English author in which the student and the practitioner will find the information so full, so clear, and completely abreast of the present state of our knowledge of the subject. Philadelphia Medical Times. We can safely say that we know not where, in any system of obstetrics, to find a companion so full and so entirely up to the knowledge of the day. JAMES MACLEHOSE, 61 St. Vincent St., Glasgow